It was hard work. I managed to get mself into position so that my left foot hung naturally over the G pedal (as I was taught when I was 11), but that isn't the position I sit in normally so my chord hand was out of position.
I tried The Blue Danube and was slightly more successful than I anticipated. I think it was muscle memory really. As a child, I used to play this all the time. I've played it a couple of times in the years I@ve had Orla, but I've never really tried to play it properly. I fluffed quite a bit, but it was much better than I thought it would be.
Then I tried Symphony Number 40 and was surprised that I could do that (sort of) too. I don't remember when I last tried to play that.
Even my nemesis, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba was not a disaster. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't a disaster. I have played AoTQoS, the right hand, quite a bit. I've even tried using my left hand to play the pedal part (obviously not to press the foot pedal, dummy, I've been using the left hand on the upper keyboad to press the foot pedal part as my right hand plays the tune).
I had to stop because my knee was killing me.
Today I put a brace on my left knee, and tried all three again. None of the pieces were perfect, but they weren't at all bad really. Well, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba was not good, but that was mainly because my hands were too cold to flow. I had a cup of coffee, and another go.
The sound quality on Orla was amazing.
Even though they were all riddled with mistakes, I'm really really happy at how un-badly I did.
